Hey Guys,

I followed the nSDL porting tips (https://github.com/Hoffa/nSDL/wiki/Porting-tips) on a SDL game and would like to show you where I am at!

The game I ported is called Anagramarama (http://www.coralquest.com/anagramarama/).

So without further delay the download link to the source and binary files: https://dl.dropbox.com/sh/efhghoc0yxgwoq8/l8XGuHtdOa/anagramarama.zip

Here are some screenshots:










In the zip file download link above; just copy the .tns files in the bin directory to the same folder on your calculator.  Holler if you have any questions/concerns!

To start run nAnagram-sdl; it should start up within a second or two!  Type the letters in the order the word is in and hit [enter] to submit the word.  You can shuffle the available letters by pressing the [space] key!  If the word isn't recognized it remains in the guess area.  If it is recognized it is added to the answers.  But because of the limited screen size on the calculator only 20 answer box areas are drawn.  To clear the guess word press the [del] key.  To see the answers press the [tab] key.  And to get a new puzzle click the [plus] key.  And try to have fun!

To me this was more of a debugging exercise than a programming one!  Various C functions like fscanf, snprintf, strdup, etc had to be replaced since I could only use the function calls listed on this page: http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/Syscalls

It was a fun experience!

I plan on just doing just a tad more with this game.  I plan on fixing a few display issues, add in mouse support (such that you can click to play), and handling for if you don't copy over all files to the same directory.  But give it a try and let me know what you think.  All sources are included such that you can do whatever you'd like with it!

Looks good, indeed

I've spread out the word over at TI-Planet: http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=11371

Looks very nice and fun to play. I assume that despite showing 20 answers at once we can scroll left/right to see more, right? I never played the original so I wasn't sure how it was like. Gonna have to give this a try soon

So i just loaded it up and it's pretty cool, the one thing it seems to be missing (apart from the longer words) is a clock! Oh, and thanks for the extra two language packs

chickendude: Sweet!  And regarding the clock; I suppose if you really think that is necessary it could be added in (as it is in the original)!  How about the clock counts UP instead?  It is set to the same amount of time and I'm sure some words are harder to come up with than others!  Plus, I might be slow because the five minutes it is set at isn't enough time for me!

zero44: Well, I haven't tried yet on a non-CX calc.  But I now do have an non-CX calc to test with so I'll try to make sure it'll work (and look alright).  It might take a week or so before I can get the next iteration out there!  Hopefully I'll see why your Clickpad is crashing after failing to open the image files.  I do intend on adding error handling code.  Thanks!

I just opened the bmp files with mViewer, I don't know how the boxes are on non-CX.
It said me something like : "failed to open *.bmp : Abort/Continue" and I continued 4 times.
But when you click Abort it's fine.

I think I could port it to z80, compressing dictionnaries to... 100 to 150kb (enormous)

EDIT: if it can help you, my calc showed during minutes the turning indicator (thing like a clock) with file explorer in background, keyboard was useless so I pulled a battery out.

It's much better now that you can see all the words! I finally managed to find all the words, it took me just over 15 minutes, about 8 minutes trying to find the last word (ATOP ). I really like the timer as well, it's a nice feature. Do you have any other features you plan to add? I think it's seems pretty complete/ready for release

I know it's a port of another game, but one thing i really liked about a lot of these style games was having to get X amount of points within a certain time limit to advance to the next set of letters, kinda like this one here: http://www.wiredarcade.com/game/1772/Word-Ruffle.html

chickendude: Awesome!  I'm so glad you solved it!  For what it is worth it makes me so happy to see somebody using something that I had a part of (and liking it)!  I still want to take a small look at the letters that show up in the available letters & guess area.  I re-sized a graphic to get those letters; but I need to do it again (and better) because I see a pink-ish outline on them.  Other than that (and an eventual mouse support) I don't intend on adding to this game.  Which means more fun games!  The mouse support I'd like to get to; but I'll probably start other games beforehand.

You're right that games with achievements, high-score table, etc do add to a game!  Maybe someday I'll add a configuration such that you could make the game easier/harder.  And probably add a high-score table too!   Thanks for the link!

Yeong: Thanks buddy!  I really do hope you enjoy it!